These are under my counters- storage for paper pads, club kits, stuff I'm collecting for future albums. A friend of mine got me these boxes when her work got all new laptops. Of course I couldn't leave them that way so I painted them to match my walls and stamped them.
I have high counters so lttle fingers dont touch anything they shouldn't! I have bar stools in here too (not pictured) but I tend to scrapbook standing up! Lots of embellishments are seen here- if I don't see them I tend to forget what I have and won't use them. See that black cabinet? my smart hubby called me when he saw that a local grocery store was throwing them during a remodel! I painted the fronts, added scrolls that I cut with my cricut and they are as good as new! For free! That's a great price!
This space is where the closet would have gone! I finally found bookshelves that fit this space! See those red cubbies? I house all my chipboard letters there - by the letter. The photo boxes houses surplus adhesives, ribbon, 4x6 photo paper, pictures, mini albums, ect. Glass candy jars house glitter, ribbons with words printed on them, bling, chatterbox chipboard, and acrylic letters.
The little black cabinet was actually made for cd's but I found it very handy! This whole section houses all of my tools. (cutters, staplers, die cut machines...)The brown underneath was a gift from our friends! Isn't it beautiful!?! They made it and surprised us! We all knew exactly where it was going!!!LOL!
Sometimes I get crazy ideas and it works! I love the orange on the wall! I just did it with my acrylics and it's hard to tell but it has this whole texture effect to, light and dark- I don't know but I like it. I used my cricut for the saying on the wall in black. Love that saying! The plaque in the middle was also a gift from a friend - it cracks me up! "Then God said "Let there be chocolate", and there was chocolate. God saw that it was good and He seperated the light from the dark." (I love chocolate)
Here is another corner the word "create" and the flourishes I actually painted on the wall. I used the Cricut for the other saying. The TV in this picture actually stopped working recently and my DH bought a flat screen! We don't have tv but I watch "smallville" dvd's while I scrap. Every now and then I throw in a "women of faith" dvd.
This is a close up of my lamp - It was actually a plain off white lampshade! I bought the lamps at home depot for $20.oo and altered the shade! I took the same paint I used for the walls , watered it down so it was super runny. I put the paint in a little spray bottle and sprayed the fabric shades until I liked the color. While it was drying I cut those fun shapes out of black cardstock with my cricut! I used krylon spray adhesive to adhere them to the inside of the shades! Another crazy idea that worked and I love the way it came out.Labels: alterables, instructions, my house, scrapbook room